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… a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce company, and will instead spin off all of its other assets into a new company. The move is the latest effort by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to assuage shareholders. Why 2016 Will Be a Big Year for iOS 9 (Street Fight) Gib Olander: With iOS 9, Apple has established a new standard…

… bet on the state of the mobile advertising ecosystem. Deal Talks for Here Mapping Service Expose Reliance on Location Data (New York Times) Companies are grappling to stay relevant in a world where smartphones — and people’s geographical information — are at the heart of nearly every tech leader’s plans. That is why companies have submitted rival…

Could Verizon's $4.4 billion purchase of AOL spark a summer of acquisitions in the ad-tech space? It depends on whom you ask. Yahoo has reportedly considered making Foursquare a big offer in recent weeks. The Google-purchasing-Twitter chatter has gone on for months and won't die.